The Mudra of Light© is a system meant only to provide a framework for awakening ourselves. I am writing this very shortly after my wife and I flew from New York to Los Angeles on Sunday, September 9th. I believe the World Trade Center tragedy was a wake up call to our ability to rise up and conquer fear with Love.

I now dedicate this book to those beautiful souls who now lead us in the good work. Serious students of all religions have embraced The Mudra of Light© and report it complimentary to their beliefs. And, as a regular kind of human myself, I can only share the words which express how much The Mudra of Light© has changed my own life. The words are inadequate, though I hope you will find them to be uplifting, healing and enlightening. I first found some resistance to practicing because some of the mudras and attached affirmations made me a bit uncomfortable even though I had had exposure to the ideas from a various array of sources in the past. Sub-consciously I skipped "I am beauty" at the beginning until I realized I had some 'comparison issues' about what I personally considered beautiful. Now I am beginning to see everything as beautiful. And I am becoming very aware of when I do not see things as beautiful that I can change my mind and look at the light instead of the lampshade.

After teaching The Mudra of Light© at a conference in California a woman from Pittsburgh called to thank me. She had had a radical operation and was scarred so 'badly' that she would undress in the dark for fear of glimpsing herself in the mirror. When she returned home after the conference she began practicing The Mudra of Light©. "I am beauty, gave me back my power", she said to me, sobbing on the phone.

This week a prisoner approached me after a rousing night of processing WTCA or World Trade Center Anger, in a hot room full of prisoners of all races, religions and backgrounds. He said, "Dan, I finally got it tonight. I've 'been down' (in prison) many times and I just now realized why! I never learned how to love!" We hugged without any manly shame. This was an important moment. A Holy Instant. Prison became Holy Ground. We close every class with The Mudra of Light©. John Lennon's song, "Imagine", comes to mind as it always does in times of trouble. Imagine all those prisoners learning how to Love.

My friend Bo Lozoff wrote a book for prisoners called '"We Are All Doing Time" and that is the point. We are all, at times at least, trapped in a prison of some sort or another. Mine have been too numerous to mention over my lifetime. I have seen evidence that The Mudra of Light© is a powerful key to our release from limitations and prisons of all kinds. There is much to be learned about how we humans operate in the world and media is allowing us to see it all. My desire is that when you consistently take a few minutes to practice The Mudra of Light© that you will begin to look for and see these qualities in others. As you see Love in others you can see it in yourself and as you see it in yourself you will see it in others. Love is neutral, like God, it requires you to acknowledge it or agree to it's existence before it can exist.

Love is love in action. The Mudra of Light© is action and motivation to action. You are going to use the energy you have for the day anyway, why not direct it towards the Light. The middle path must no longer be between good and evil, it must between God and Love. .